BWWC 2012

A Conference with a lot of Brontë-related talks:

The 20th-Anniversary
18th- and 19th-century British Women Writers Conference
June 7-10, 2012
Boulder, Colorado

Remarkable Ecology in Brontë and Shelley (Century Room)
Moderator: Mary Ann O’Farrell
Kimberley Kaczorowski (U of Utah), “‘Roughly Roused and Obliged to Live’: Self and Land in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”
Radical Histories (Millennium Room)
Moderator: Jodi Wagner-Angell
Nathalia King (Reed College), “Charlotte Brontë as Cultural Historian: is the Woman in the White Dress Marching down that Country Lane Loyalist or Radical?”
The Corpus and the Corporeal (Century Room)
Moderator: Constance Fulmer
Shannon Sears (Michigan State U), “Lucy Snowe’s Inner Architecture: Head and Heart in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”
Special Session: Landmark Pedagogies in Literature (Millennium Room)
Organized and chaired by Hilary Fezzey
Martin Fashbaugh (Black Hills State U), “Covering Wide Swaths of Land in the Classroom: A Socratic Seminar on the Topic of Land and Identity in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”
April Toadvine (St. Joseph’s College), “Writing the Wiki: Student Writing and the Brontës”
Land, Affect, and History (Room TBD)
Moderator: Nicolle Jordan
David Sigler (U of Idaho), “Landmarks of England and the Echoes of Romanticism in Charlotte
Brontë’s The Professor”
Visualizing Landscapes in Art and Architecture (Hospitality Room 2)
Moderator: Ann Fernald
Yvette Mylett (Loyola Marymount U), “‘Freshness of colouring and freedom of handling’: Helen Graham’s Artistry as a Defiance of Kitsch Victorian Culture in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Religion, Sanctity, and the Spirit (Room TBD)
Moderator: Katherine Gilbert
Janna Smartt Chance (Union U), “As if . . . we stood at God’s feet”: Judgment Day as a Landmark Event in Jane Eyre and Early Victorian Religious Texts”
Experiments in Genre I (Flatiron Room)
Moderator: Molly Youngkin
Alexandra Valint (U of Pittsburgh), “Lockwood’s Diary? Closure, Ambiguity, and the Difficulty in Categorizing Lockwood’s Narrative in Wuthering Heights.”
Owning the Land (Hospitality Room 2)
Moderator: Anne Wallace
Katherine Gilbert (Drury U, MO), “‘I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth’: The Making of Land and Bodies in Wuthering HeightsThe Gothic Mode (Century Room)
Moderator: Amy Gates
Deborah Lutz (Long Island U), “Relics and Monuments to Death in Wuthering Heights”
Transportation and Mapping (Hospitality Suite 331)
Moderator: Antony Harris
Cynthia Drake (CU-Boulder), “Mapping Colonial Desires: Crosses and Crossing in Villette”
Making and Marking the Icon (Flatiron Room)
Moderator: Rebecca Barr
Mary Clai Jones (U Kentucky), “Missing the Mark? Lucy Snowe’s Journey of Self Fashioning in Villette”